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Enharmonic Zen: Former Zenwalkers Do Salix OS Fork
The end of May the Zenwalk team came to some disagreements with its project lead Jean-Philippe Guillemin and some other team members. The result is a new distro called Salix OS.
LG Tries Android Smartphone in European Market
The previously Windows-dedicated Korean company has ventured this fall into its first Android smartphone for the European market.
ARM Joins the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has reinforcements from the hardware camp. CPU manufacturer ARM joined the Foundation on Monday.
GNOME Foundation's First Quarterly Report
The GNOME Foundation wants to issue regular quarterly reports to document the work on the free desktop. A Q2 2009 report is a good start.
Open PC: KDE Nettop with Amarok and Firefox
The Open PC Project wants to construct a fair priced PC for Linux users. The results of a first survey have now been published.
Timechart: Zoom in on Operating System
Intel developer Arjan van de Ven is working on a new tool named Timechart that records Linux system performance in detailed graphics.
FSF Publish New List Of Truly Free Linux Distributions
Whoever thought that Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora consist solely of free software would be wrong. The new list compiled by the Free Software Foundation showing truly free distributions has a mere nine entries.
IndiMail 1.6 Includes Greylisting and BATV
IndiMail, an email solution made of open source components, now includes greylisting spam filtering in version 1.6.
Botnet of Linux Servers with Dynamic IP Discovered
A Russian Web developer has found a network of a couple of hundred Linux servers that could distribute malware to Windows systems.